Avon Essay

The life of Shakespeare is still a big deal today. Scientists to this day, still try to solve the mysteries of Shakespeare life. Were his plays written by someone else, but given the great name of Shakespeare? Shakespeare’s life is based on the theories and guess work. Shakespeare’s birthday is known to be around April 23, 1564, in Stratford. Out of seven siblings only four grew to adulthood. Shakespeare was obvious one of the lucky four to survive. His sister Joan was the first child and she…

I chose William Shakespeare because he is a very interesting person. It is weird how no one actually knows his real birthday. They think that he had died on his 52nd birthday, but no one actually know the real facts about him. He is also known for the greatest dramatist of all time. It is very fun and interesting researching him. I’m happy I got to research William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564, in Stratford, United Kingdom. They assumed his birthday was then, but…

Rhetorical Appeals in Julius Caesar Julius Caesar once said, “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it” (Caesar). William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town in Warwickshire, England. Shakespeare went to school, yet he didn't continue to advance his education. In 1582, he married a more seasoned lady, Anne Hathaway, and they had three kids together. At around 1590, he deserted his family and headed out to fill in as a performer and dramatist…

In Chaucer’s satirical comedy The Canterbury Tales, and Shakespeare’s play King Lear, women are portrayed in a negative light. In both time periods, female characters are supposed to be submissive and obedient to their husbands; furthermore, as seen in the text, women are frowned upon for being knowledgeable and independent. Each author uses his work to promote their opinion on gender roles in society. In the fourteenth century, society was based on hierarchal status and women were at the…

The poem “Tears, Idle Tears” by Alfred Tennyson was written in 1847, during the beginning of the Victorian era. Tennyson was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom in 1809 and died in Lurgashall, United Kingdom in 1892. He had seven brothers and four sisters, none of which were as recognized for their work as Alfred Tennyson was. His father, a church rector, became melancholy when he realized his family had started to lose money due to disinheritance. This is what started his heavy…

Which One Is Written Better? Shakespeare was brought to all in the 1564, yet so far back but so popular now. Some of the popular Shakespearean plays are the Twelfth Night another one Romeo and Juliet. While doing research on these two wonderful plays it showed there is quite a difference in the plot structure, theme, and symbolism of the plays.Looking at the evidence supporting that Romeo and Juliet is written with a better plot structure, theme, and better symbolism than Twelfth Night. The…

Osborne's Life: John Osborne was born in 1929 in a London suburb, of a lawyer middle-class parents. He was educated in London in a boarding school where he developed a passion for acting and for writing plays, but in 1946 he left school and worked for two trade magazines. In 1948 he became an actor and shortly after an actor-manager, continuing to write his own plays especially during his periods of unemployment. In 1956 he wrote Look Back in Anger, which was produced at the Royal Court Theatre…

Christopher Marlowe born in 1564, he was an english playwright, poet, translator of the elizabethan era. He was born to shoemaker John Marlowe. He was just two months older to his contemporary William Shakespeare. He was educated at King’s school Canterbury and at the Cambridge University. He was the foremost elizabethan tragedian of his day. Christopher Marlowe, he was the greatest dramatist of the medieval period. Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was based on German Faustbuch. Marlowe’s…

The story of The Three Stooges began in 1922 with Ted Healy, Moe Howard and Samuel “Shemp” Howard. From a young age, Moe Howard desired to go about the career of acting. He started in smaller positions, taking most anything, such as performing in Shakespearean plays. However, nothing for Moe stuck or became massively successful. That was until he re-encountered a long-time friend, and now Vaudeville entertainer, Ted Healy, at the Brooklyn Prospect Theatre. Healy needed a…

How does a play about a bastard, orphan, son of a whore go on and on grow into more of a phenomenon? Lin Manuel Miranda changed Broadway in 2015 with his musical Hamilton. Inspired by a biography by Ron Chernow about the life of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda went to work on what might be the most influential musical of the decade. Miranda, in creating his work, had to work through the constraints, find the exigence, and establish the audience for writing a Broadway musical while also making it…